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A patient who presents with a lateral shift  secondary to a disc injury should have the shift corrected before beginning flexion exercises. Do you agree with this statement? Explain why or why not.

Music from the Classical Era

Here is Bach’s Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 “Little Fugue.” You’ve listened to this several times. Listen again carefully for the voices in the exposition.    The first voice plays the theme beginning at 0:07. The second voice begins at [answer1] The third voice enters at [answer2] The fourth and final voice enters at [answer3]

Watch the beginning of this excerpt from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. In two or three sentences describe what is happening at this point in the opera. Use character names. The more detail you have, the more points you get.

The volume, the loudness or softness of a sound, is called:

Your overhead athlete presents with weak core strength, anterior pelvic tilt, forward head and rounded shoulders.  Which of the following lists of muscle groups will be weak and inhibited due to this style of posture? 

History:  An offensive lineman comes to the clinic complaining of low back pain.  He reports having several similar episodes over the past year but cannot recall a specific mechanism of injury.  He tells you that he just has a “bad back” and gets pain frequently.  Physical Exam Findings: OBSERVATION: excessive L/S lordosis PALPATION: You notice asymmetric muscle tone in the paraspinals.  You also locate several trigger points in quadratus lumborum on the right and the paraspinals on the left. SPINE AROM: Complains of pain with L/S flexion at a certain point in the motion but then it goes away.  On the way back up, he complains of pain and has a (+) Gower’s sign.  He reports low back discomfort with extension.  Sidebending is not painful.  All motions appear to be full.  SPECIAL TESTS: (+) prone instability test, (-) standing flexion test, (-) Laslett cluster; Spring testing over L4-L5 segments elicit pain and muscle guarding (spasm) of the erector spinae.   Answer the following: 1) Which treatment classification would you use and why?  2) Describe your treatment approach 

This is an example of a/an:

This is music is from the ______________ era.

What do Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Katherine Likhuta’s Lesions have in common?